Guest Op-Ed: Progress and promise in war on tobacco epidemic
BY KATHLEEN SEBELIUS
Fifty years ago on January 10, Dr. Luther Terry released the landmark Surgeon General’s Report – the first of its kind on smoking and health – concluding that smoking causes lung cancer.
In the five decades since, we’ve learned: that smoking damages nearly every organ in the body; it is responsible for an enormous burden of disease, death and economic cost in the United States; and, exposure to secondhand smoke can have devastating health consequences.